skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very funny take on Pokémon battles using LLMs to generate characters, moves, music and animations. Well made.
Alternative finger placement on the keyboard (2003)
Show HN: I made Open Graph image generator to avoid design them every-time
I made this because I hate designing things and found myself wasting too much time making open graph images. So I set it up to be automatic in FastOG and made it very quick. Now we only need to click once to get the picture.
And the author is not documenting them either, just announcing his new niche library. It is not like disassembling a few functions to prove that they exist is dark magic. I just don't see any value in the article.
DRC's 1B trees program makes progress, but hurdles remain
Pure genius. Tonight I am very sad.
English-only speaker here.

A good translation is one where the "good" in the original comes through. That might be a concept, a story, or even the rhythm of the words. Great books especially have _many_ good things that a translation needs to handle. Translation is hard because sometimes translating a "feel" might come at a loss of the clarity needed to express an idea.

I like what Emerson said about it in "Books"

> What is really best in any book is translatable, – any real insight or broad human sentiment. Nay, I observe that, in our Bible, and other books of lofty moral tone, it seems easy and inevitable to render the rhythm and music of the original into phrases of equal melody.
Is there a line between research/discovery and engineering? Binary numbers and Boolean algebra is discovery, while IEEE floating-point numbers are engineering. Choosing digital over analog is engineering, while inventing the transistor is discovery. Serial over parallel for networks and busses -- engineering. Turning machine & halting problem -- discovery. Von Neumann architecture -- engineering. Combinatory logic -- discovery. LISP -- engineering. Public key encryption -- discovery. Graphical UIs -- engineering.

But there are fuzzy areas, like hashmaps. Discovery or engineering?

Tho perhaps it's pointless, or worse, elitist to even make this distinction.
Hey, I'm Renato.
I realized I was wasting to much time creating Open Graph images.
So I built a faster solution.

Feel free to try it out and tell me what you think.
Yup sometimes it feels like AWS and Azure are like this.
As a gardener, fungal diseases probably cost the most each year in plant loss. They are very difficult to eradicate once established and fungal spores are microscopic and very good at spreading. I’ve had years of 100% loss on tomato’s, peppers, and apple trees, all from tiny fungi.
Imho the app was pretty fancy early on.

The sleep stages/timeline graph now looks more like a scatter plot than a progression of sleep states.

Example screenshots

https://www.techradar.com/health-fitness/fitbits-redesigned-...
> Sarcasm is by definition

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sarcasm

> accomplished by vocal intonation, and at a stretch, by context

You must be using a different dictionary from the rest of us.

> Any sentence read lacks the information to identify it as sarcasm unless it's explicitly stated.

There's a skill called "reading comprehension" that can really help with this.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40267072.
I'd definitely recommend anyone working in tech, but especially software engineers, to run their own fleets. Mine started similar to this one a decade ago as a home lab. I learned a lot from that lab and now it's more of a single datacenter cloud running XCP-ng from what used to be a collection of SSH Docker Compose hosts.
Thought the same thing when I read this.

How times have and haven't changed.
Yet it’s possible to build some incredible applications on top of just ESP32, especially with extra RAM.
Doesn’t matter unless they follow through with this and are willing to give up revenue to do security. MSFT always puts this garbage out to safe face, but the organization always reverts to speed and money over anything else.

Untrustworthy. It’s wild how enterprises have overlooked the rampant problems at MSFT for decades.
No one has ever been paid for keeping a good design the same.
The Linotype machine supported ﬂ, ﬀ, ﬃ, ℔, œ, and æ. See https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/46/Linotype... linked to from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linotype_machine. Or see https://archive.org/details/LinotypeKeyboardPractice/page/n9... .

Even cheap printing presses could handle more than you think. Here's a type case layout from 1846, again with æ, œ, ﬂ, ﬀ, and ﬃ, ﬁ and ﬄ. https://archive.org/details/printingapparatu00holtrich/page/... .

That book is for the "Parlour printing press [which] was invented by Mr. Cowper for the amusement and education of youth, by enabling them to print any little subject they had previously written, provided the printing did not exceed in size the dimensions of an ordinary duodecimo page, which measures about 5 inches by 3 inches."
I agree with your anecdote but on an even shorter scale. Normal running. I’m in a running club that spans casual runners to 5x per year marathoners. Most of the folks running more look, well, aged.
Maybe depends on where you are? All the systems I have worked on in a few countries have the neutral connected to earth ground at the feed point for the building, at the servíce entrance.
So yeah, what you're missing is that there are natural monopolies. One such would be a centralized tax collector for a nation state. Some others would be a centralized copyright, patent, vehicle or real estate registrar.

In terms of software it helps to have a centralized repository for code as this eases development quite a bit. Imagine you need libraries from multiple repositories. That's a pretty big pain point. Eventually everyone will migrate to just a single source.

Again, these are natural monopolies and primarily driven by the network effect.
You aren't mistaken. I should've written "runtime overhead" - my point is that there is no runtime performance penalty for getting rid of the UB in the Option API.

An equivalent API with no UB is just strictly better.
Yea this happens to me too. The other person probably gave facebook access to their contacts.
Let’s duplicate the weather radio broadcasts on the AM bands and leave the commercial stuff on the internet/podcasts in order to maximize safety, then. I’m sure the folks lobbying for this bill like the Salem Media Group wouldn’t mind.
Well, if people go with "if it's working, don't break it", they can upgrade when they lose some availability after it breaks.
How's the performance?

It looks like a fantastic alternative to partitioning a disk for having multiple OSs. Just buy a few of these things and run them simultaneously.
He died at age 85. He is survived by his wife of 25 years. That is an admirably long marriage, and it started at age 60.
I filled one of these forms last month/last to last month but didn't hear back
Sometimes it can be, but other times I don't want it.

Just wish we could decide what we were shown [still]. Can't have it both ways if you want section 230 protection.
cool thanks! you may see a PR this week after i use this.
yes, my bad; as in TFA's picture
Yeah, absolutely. My point is that Option itself doesn't give you this API and to make an unsafe version, you have to explicitly write it.

Including UB in easy to misuse places is totally unnecessary and a footgun which really does cause issues in real code.
I met Dick at the Voyager Restaurant in Mojave, and he was very friendly. At the time I had a Grumman Tiger, the same model he and Burt once owned. He made small talk about his fond memories of the plane, but honestly I was just a little too star struck. It was surreal talking to someone who had done so much being driven by an incredible passion for aviation.
You are welcome to use many different payment rails with Amazon, Burger King, etc. Between them Patrick McKenzie and Dan Davies are pretty good on why people use the rails they do, and which blood wrote the financial regulations governing them.
One more con from Big Tech
If philosophy is the art of forming questions, this article is pure philosophy.

I am trying to think like the author.

Buy I don't know why virtual memory is separable from memory protection: one necessitates the other.

Aren't call stacks data structures in the same way as lists? What's special about arrays as you can find equivalence between this idea.

The first job is to understand taxonomic distinctions between ideas, but there's no consideration of taxonomic equivalence. For example you can derive one good idea from a combination of others.

For example, I'll add for no:
- Interrupts/Events/Signals
- Caches

Are these subsumed by processes?

When does a loop rise to the status of a process?

Is I/O a good idea, or intrinsic?

To me the question of goodness should expand to add truth and beauty, then a new academe of philosophical computing can be launched.
They'll probably remove the t64 suffix when all packages are migrated and t64 becomes the norm. However, I didn't dig the list too much to see what they're planning.
Just a few that are both open source and have the hosted public versions available:

https://github.com/RobinLinus/snapdrop

https://github.com/jchorl/sendfiles

https://github.com/szimek/sharedrop
But you don't need to. You just need to corner communities and exploit the fact people can't move our easily. Even in those communities, you just need to dominate the float, not the entire stock.

And there is such a thing as pricing power which enables certain actors to control prices without dominance, even then.
There is value in choice. Not won't necessary always use just the same two buttons, so people like have the option to use other buttons. And quite often more buttons also come with better specs.
At their scale you'll run into a few hard things around handling large spikes of load to a single post and related set of comments/votes. But those are not impossible problems to solve.

The problem is that you don't have any users/communities for your Reddit alternative.
Personally, I'd include the Relational Calculus, or even the Paxos algorithm. But I'd also include Neural Nets knowing what I know now. But I wouldn't include Quantum Computing yet -- not until it's proved to work.
Jack Dorsey says he's no longer on the Bluesky board
Like MurmurHash, I expect these are meant to be non-cryptographic.

However, that said, I feel like the Avalanche + Bias idea is missing quite a bit.

Example: This function as the last listed function.

// exact bias: 0.020888578919738908
uint32_t
triple32(uint32_t x)
{
x ^= x >> 17;
x *= 0xed5ad4bbU;
x ^= x >> 11;
x *= 0xac4c1b51U;
x ^= x >> 15;
x *= 0x31848babU;
x ^= x >> 14;
return x;
}

Produces this image when implemented by FabriceNeyret2 on ShaderToy.

https://www.shadertoy.com/view/WttXWX

or

https://i.imgur.com/qU2P5rx.png

However, a simple normal map slope differentiation shows a quite a few obvious "crystal" lines. There's probably a technical term for those types of ridges.

https://i.imgur.com/IHWT1GM.png

Edit: Also, this entire idea is half a decade old? https://nullprogram.com/blog/2018/07/31/
It's even named after the movie's villain.
I don't know. Every job since the one out of grad school--admittedly only a few (I tend to stay at jobs for a long time)--involved pinging someone I knew well (former co-worker/client/consultant who worked for us). HR or recruiter was never involved until later in the process so no HR filtering involved.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40261408 (different article, same subject, 18h ago and has some interesting stories.)
Feels like something Apple might want to do a first-party version of
So you don’t interview anyone whose work is company proprietary?
To illustrate this point, here is how to have a multi line value in yaml: just kidding, it’s so confusing that there is a whole website to help you figure it out: https://yaml-multiline.info/
No need for that mate, just deploy home assistant or something similar and you will get this (and more) out of the box
Monaspace font 1.1 released
It easily cross-compiles to any target it supports, and natively handles C and C++ dependencies. Much of the complexity of supporting builds in other languages comes from the inclusion of object code in C or C++, so using Zig gives a leg up with that. It also handles caching quite cleanly.

I don't think it's an obvious choice for literally everything, at least not yet. But I'd suggest strongly considering it as a build tool for object-code-heavy applications, even if they don't use the Zig language itself.
The objective of a translator should be to retain the spirit of the original, and have the translated piece stand on its own two feet as a work of literature. This is why Ezra Pound and Christopher Logue were such good translators.

Pound translated into English the Analects of Confucius, a bunch of Noh Plays, and many other works of Chinese and Japanese literature. But he was barely capable of reading Chinese or Japanese at all. He was provided with rough word-for-word translations by friends like Ernest Fenollosa, and he translated those into literature.

Logue didn't know any Ancient Greek, but his rendition of a part of the Iliad is probably the greatest achievement of late 20th century poetry. He simply re-worked the (many) existing English translations into something more lyrical and contemporary. In effect, he reinterpreted the existing body of translations -- and, in his own way, heightened their effect, and captured much of the spirit of the original.

I find that most translations -- especially of poetry -- tend to be altogether too mechanical. Pound and Logue had it figured out.
Please don't make dumb reddit style comments
I tried making a reddit clone focused on making clips of youtube videos (sdwr.ca)

The lack of users is the biggest problem, but I was surprised by how the technical concerns started piling up.
It's some combination of reasoning and memory. But whatever it is, the thing that we call intelligent has to perform better than most people at relevant tasks.

It's interesting because some people are clearly better at thinking about very specific things. Like, is a chess champion the same kind of intelligent as a mathematician? I don't know, probably not.
Also, the Accept-Language header supports multiple languages. I want to read everything I can in the original, rather then having everything translated, but even websites that use the language header often only consider the first entry.
The problem is if you actually succeed you'll have big governments hands around your throat
I was expecting to see the download link in the post too!
> why would I want aid for Israel to pass?

You probably don’t.

> why it’s ok to criticize “one side’s” tactic

One of the best assets for people trying to bring down a hammer on Israel are its right-wing politicians explicitly calling for bombing civilians and annexing Gaza. You generally want extremists on the other side to voice support for unpopular things.
I didn't know anyone was fighting against insects on perennial plants. I've certainly never bothered, I've never seen insects do enough damage to be bothered. However, I'm not going to leave cabbage moths to destroy my brassicas, because they absolutely will not stop until the plant is a nub in the soil.
No, it’s not. Identifying which problems are worth solving (regardless of their complexity), and solving those is worth promotion.

Lots of engineers have a fascination with solving complex problems purely for the sake of solving them. When you make that your criteria for promotion you end up have to do many rounds of layoffs in harder times because you’re staffed to the gills with people solving complex problems that deliver little to no actual value.
TL;DR the author settled on Tailwind. I prefer Tachyons myself (less overhead). I agree that functional/atomic CSS is the way to go.

Separation Of Concerns (HTML <-> CSS) is a LIE. Naming is one of the hardest things in computer science, and folks in the "Separation Of Concerns" camp repeatedly subject themselves to this torture by forcing themselves to come up with "semantic" names instead of just writing the damn styles and seeing which styles get repeatedly used together so that they can be condensed into a class.
The key is that Apple's product lineup is relatively small. Compare that with e.g. Lenovo, who offer a mindblowing amount of SKUs.

Too many SKUs tend to be correlated with lack of polish and attention to detail. And this comes from someone who prefers Linux, and hence ThinkPad.

Even basic user experiences, such as buying online, are vastly better at Apple. For instance, lenovo.com is handled by a third party in many markets, including the EU.
> best practice is usually to encrypt it before sending it to the external world

Yeah, although encryption is basically a way of hiding semantics from the external world (or, everyone else but whoever generates them) no?
People usually look older when they have a lower body fat percentage. Edit: also add in potentially more UV exposure due to above average time spent outside in the sun
You got me curious so I ordered one. I have a minimal leather wallet but no cash pocket. I don’t really need to use cash but there are two classic old bars/tap houses in town that are still cash only, so carry some for that.
But then what's the plan behind this change anyway? Am I going to scramble to buy 19 more domains? Of course not! I'll move and they'll get $15 less a year (or whatever they charge for a .net these days)
> To me, a slack message or chat message is the digital equivalent to me going to your desk or talking to you at lunch in person.

Slack literally stands for Searchable Log of All Conversation and Knowledge. That's why it was built! It's explicitly meant to supersede talking at lunch with something recorded and searchable.
Yeah, not to mention the ability to automate things.

My latest automation: when the white noise machine is on for the baby, the doorbell volume is turned down.
I'm not sure about the actual hardware, but physical copies of helldivers 2 are on sale in the Philippines, where you can't make a PSN account. You can find them on Playstation's website which makes me think they are authorized copies https://www.playstation.com/en-ph/games/helldivers-2/
To dang, is this a bug? This was posted 8 minutes ago with 8 points yet has 40+ comments
There is no AGI without violence, its part of being free thinking and self survival.

Self survival idea is a part of natural selection, AGI doesn't have to have it. Maybe the problem is we are the only template to build AGI from, but that's not inherent to "I" in any way. Otoh, lack of self preservation can make animals even more ferocious. Also there's a reason they often leave a retreat path in warzones.

Long story short it's not that straightforward, so I sort of agree cause it's an uncharted defaults-lacking territory we'll have to explore. "Unlearn bad" is as naive as not telling your kids about sex and drugs.
Well, good sir, you actually got through my thick skull. I have a soft spot for the Irish. I understand.
Name and shame.

Who specifically told you to turn off retention for all conversations?
+1 for release. Strava Sync would be great - but keep it simple
Most of the people I know are very athletic with low body fat. But only the ultra-runners look gaunt and old.

Normal runners don’t seem as affected. I think the ultra part visibly wears people out.
And a big challenge to create all kinds of anti-abuse features that normal users never see. But not having them will quickly kill your site from all kinds of spam and voting fraud.
> Also, this entire idea is half a decade old?

Is that a bad thing?
Gold is both a great store of value (dense, does not degrade, easy to store) and a reasonable medium of exchange (small amounts can cover most transactions, but hard to verify amounts and purity) so I think it's quite likely that it will retain value in the event of social collapse. Recall that gold was a medium of exchange in the west and Asia for thousands of years before it had industrial value.

The other commodities you listed would certainly be important, but the problem is they don't do well on one or both of the dimensions above. Another big issue is that you sort of want some generic means of exchange that doesn't address a specific need. Sure, you'll probably need all the things you listed at one point or another, but what if you already have enough bullets, antiseptic, etc? You can hold on to it to trade, but what if the next person doesn't need it either? You don't need to immediately use gold but it's likely that the next guy you deal with will trade for it because he knows he can trade with it too.
yes, as i said, the usa is an exception. canada is the same as the usa but has a very small number of buildings. argentina, brazil, perú, ecuador, and most of central america are almost entirely reinforced concrete frames filled in with cheap hollow brick and maybe decorated with wood paneling. very poor areas and luxury cabins are sometimes exceptions, and possibly that's where you went in central america

remember there's a billion people living in america. only a third of those are in the usa, and the people in the usa are much more urbanized, meaning less buildings per person. canada is another 4% of the total american population. so roughly three quarters of the buildings in america are outside the usa and canada
Hertfordshire Residents Speak Out Against Google's Data Centre
Having joined a company that uses Slack for the first time it was crazy how good it was on searching for issues that other people had. I can quite literally copy and paste the error message above and see other people that had the same issue and how it got solved or not on a thread. I can also bump the thread or go to the channel or reach out to who answered.

It’s pretty great and one of the amazing things on having a lot as chat, it also allows you to easily reach out to anyone very quickly and feels more personal than a ticket in some archaic bug system that becomes a black hole after it gets introduced.

Be careful with your assumptions - it’s not like Google has created much of value in the past N years with its current culture, its original culture (book how Google works) seems much more like the cowboy you criticize
Could not edit, so adding it here- also likely much more UV exposure than average (especially compared to office workers) due to active lifestyle might also be a factor
Absolutely pathetic. Might as well become worm.
I'd prefer to refer to it as 'changing userspace', as opposed to breaking it. The ABI is changed, and userspace/ports are updated to use the new ABI. Users just upgrade as usual, and don't see any 'breakage'. It wouldn't work for Linux, because the kernel and glibc + the rest of userspace are developed separately.

Slides on OpenBSD's transition to 64-bit time_t

https://www.openbsd.org/papers/eurobsdcon_2013_time_t/index....

"I have altered the ABI. Pray I do not alter it further." -- Theo de Raadt

https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=157489277318829&w=2
yeah, in spanish and portuguese, generally america is considered to be one continent, not two. https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Am%C3%A9rica begins, for example, "America is the second largest continent on Earth, after Asia."

basically there's a lot of cluelessness going around in this thread by people who've apparently never thought about things like where amerigo vespucci sailed to, what columbus is said to have discovered (by landing where), where the members of the organization of american states are located, where the pan-american highway goes, etc.